The exponential growth of Xbox Game Pass, especially during 2020, has generated more people wondering if Sony intends to respond with a similar subscription. The funny thing, however, is that those in Japan already have PlayStation Now in their catalog of services, but they have never managed to match the popularity of Microsoft’s proposal. Due to the above, it appears that the company is preparing a service that will finally attract the industry spotlight.
In an interview with the Russian news portal TASS
Unfortunately, Ryan did not specify if an entirely new service is coming or will “just” put more effort into improving PlayStation Now. Although the features of this service are similar to those of Xbox Game Pass, one of its biggest disadvantages is that it is not yet available worldwide. Latin America, for example, has been waiting for several years to access this subscription. On the other hand, its catalog of games is still limited.
PlayStation and Xbox follow different paths
So, we will have to wait longer to know one possible PlayStation response to the successful Game Pass, which to this day is still the best video game subscription on the market. Even Microsoft continues to open the portfolio to add even more titles to its library. This year they bought Bethesda for $ 7.5 billion, and later struck a deal with Electronic Arts to include EA Play on Xbox Game Pass.
Sony’s strategy, by contrast, is maintain millionaire investments in the development of exclusive games, which gave excellent results during the generation of the PlayStation 4. Not only were they a success in sales, they also received recognition for their quality of production. Following Jim Ryan’s statements, it seems that the battle to conquer the next-gen still has some surprises on the way.
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